[For earlier release notes see ../v0.9/NOTES] Release 1.0 - The major chage to this release is support for .Z compressed images (at least on Unix platforms). This is implemented by using the uncompress command which must be in the user's execution path. - There is much more dynamic checking of the magic number of inputs to determine whether the input to the FITS constructor is compressed or not, and if compressed what the compression type is. The user can still confuse the program if they specify an incorrect value for th ecompression flag but in many cases it will get the compression right regardless of what the user specifies. Future versions may completely ignore the user specified compression flag. - A new CompressTester class tests both reading both types of compressed files also does a test of all of the non-trivial constructors for Fits objects. - Handling of string inputs to the Fits constructor is changed so that instead of looking for a specific set of scheme prefixes, a string is first tried out as a URL and then as a file. - Bug fix to BinaryTable by A. Kovacs Release 1.0b - A problem reading past the end of files in normal FITS processing was included in the 1.0 release and was fixed (7/11/08). The earlier jars were overwritten. The problem shows up in the regression test suite.